Exotic temptations

Dreaming of a flat in a Dubai tower building or a villa in the Dominican Republic with a view on the Caribbean? Or perhaps an apartment in sunny Spain? You can now buy every possible kind of home abroad – your bank account permitting – through Polish estate agents. At the moment this is only a niche market, but a very promising oneMany a sigh can heard from Polish estate agents these days, as they ruefully complain that: “The Polish housing market has stagnated and the golden days are long gone when Polish investors first cautiously purchased individual homes and later whole packages of flats, pocketing 50, 100 pct – and sometimes more than that – when selling them on. The prices of Polish homes have increased enormously. So, rather than a place on the freezing Baltic sea coast, where there are more rainy than sunny days, perhaps sir or madam would be interested in buying an apartment in sunny …?” – with the name of whichever exotic locat